Chronology
1968 Born London, 13 April
1979 Art Scholarship to Dulwich College, London.
1986 Foundation Course in Art & Design, St Martin’s School of Art.
1987 BA (Hons) Three dimensional design, Kingston Polytechnic.
Solo Exhibitions
2017 From Hackney To Hastings, The Millinery Works, 17 October to 12 November.
Selected Group Exhibitions
1995 Photographer’s London. The Museum of London
1998 Summer Interlude, The Paton Gallery, Hackney.
1999 Tower Blocks – Love them or Loathe them. The Museum of London.
2001 Creative Quarters. The Museum of London.
2003 British Watercolours. Mall Galleries.
2007 – 2010 London Art Fair, Cosa Gallery London.
2005 – 2015 Contemporary British Art. The Millinery Works Gallery, London.
2017 V & A Museum of Childhood, Searching for Ghosts, Holly Street, Portraits and Holly Street Tower Block Sculpture, 11 Feb 2017 to 21 Jan 2018.
Film / Documentary
‘Under the Cranes’ Emma-Louise Williams and Michael Rosen, 2011. Featured artists Leon Kossoff, Jock McFadyen and James Mackinnon
‘The Bastille Concerto’ documentary produced by Tony Collins, celebrating the life of legendary jazz drummer Clifford Jarvis. To be released 2018.
Bibliography
Artists London – Holbein to Hurst’ Kit Weld, Lucy Pelz, Cathy Ross, Merrel Publishers Ltd, 2001.
Dictionary of British Artists since 1945, David Buckman, Art Dictionaries, 2016.
East End Vernacular – Artists who painted London’s East End streets in the 20th Century’ The Gentle Author, October 2017.
Links
Solo Exhibition, From Hackney to Hastings, The Millinery Works, 17 Oct - 12 Nov 2017.
East End Vernacular. "Artists who painted London's East End streets in the 20th century
British Council "Under The Cranes"
Michael Rosen. The Telegraph. "Tower block with gardens"
London Fields East "The Ghetto"
Grandfather, Artist Hugh Mackinnon